M&A Update – U.S. Deals up 33%; Fifteen more domestic deals

425 U.S. DEALS

LATEST 12 MONTHS

33%

632* GLOBAL DEALS

LATEST 12 MONTHS

42%

*Including U.S. deals

Percentages represent latest twelve months year-over-year increase or decrease in deal activity.

M&A Update – U.S. Deals up 33%; Fifteen more domestic deals

IT'S BEEN A BUSY JANUARY!

Here are the 10 deals that were announced this month that we played a role in:

DOMESTIC TRANSACTIONS

2/3/2022

Pioneering AEG and strategic consulting firm Woolpert (Dayton, OH) (ENR #59) acquired eTrac (San Rafael, CA), a vessel-based hydrographic survey and marine technology firm that conducts custom and integrated marine services. Link to details >

1/31/2022

Leading designer HDR (Omaha, NE) (ENR #6) acquired SPF Water Engineering (Boise, ID), a water, wastewater, and hydrogeologic consulting firm. Link to details >

2/1/2022

Trilon Group (Denver, CO), a newly formed engineering services platform of Alpine Investors (San Francisco, CA), announced its first partnership with Waggoner Engineering (Jackson, MS), a civil engineering, transportation, environmental, and water resources services firm. Link to details >

2/2/2022

Industry-leading Westwood Professional Services (Minnetonka, MN) (ENR #122) acquired Pacheco Koch Consulting Engineers (Dallas, TX), an engineering, surveying, planning, and landscape architecture services firm. Link to details >

1/31/2022

Consulting, design, engineering, and construction firm The Austin Company (Cleveland, OH) acquired Gala & Associates (Beverly Hills, MI), an architectural engineering, design, and project management firm. Link to details >

1/31/2022

ENR's #21 ranked global design firm Ramboll Group (Copenhagen, Denmark) acquired EYP Mission Critical Facilities (Westchester, NY), a firm that specializes in data centre strategy, planning, design, and commissioning services. Link to details >

1/5/2022

Integral Group (Oakland, CA) (ENR #167) merged with Ross & Baruzzini (St. Louis, MO) (ENR #268), creating one of the largest building engineering consulting firms. The name of the new company will be announced in the months ahead. Link to details >

1/25/2022

SKB Architecture and Design (Washington D.C.) acquired Block 16 Architects & Urbanists (Austin, TX), an architecture firm serving the multi-family housing, senior housing, retail, hospitality, medical office, veterinary, and industrial sectors.

Link to details >

2/1/2022

AE firm GreenbergFarrow (Atlanta, GA) acquired SGA|NarmourWright Design (Pawleys Island, SC), an architecture, interior design, land planning, and landscape architecture firm. Link to details >

2/2/2022

Resource Environmental Solutions (Houston TX) expanded in Florida with the acquisitions of E Sciences (Orlando, FL), an engineering, environmental, and ecological consulting firm, and Sandra Walters Consultants (Key West, FL), a land use planning, habitat assessment, and environmental permitting firm. Link to details >

2/1/2022

Engineering, procurement, and construction firm Exyte US (Albany, NY) (ENR #239) acquired Nuance Systems (Portland, OR), a technical engineering and manufacturing firm specialized in ultra-high purity gas and chemical delivery systems. Link to details >

2/2/2022

Commercial real estate due diligence advisory firm Nova Group, GBC (St. Louis Park, MN) acquired Peak Environmental (East Brunswick, NJ). The acquisition strengthens Nova’s presence in New Jersey, New York, and surrounding areas.

Link to details >

2/1/2022

Fast-growing Ardurra Group (Tampa, FL) (ENR #190) acquired and merged with Pevida Highway Designers (Miami, FL), a transportation civil engineering firm serving the Southeastern United States. Link to details >

1/13/2022

Transportation consulting firm TranSystems (Kansas City, MO) (ENR #83) acquired OMEGA & Associates (Chicago, IL), a CM/PM firm with extensive experience in roadway, bridges, and large-scale expressway and tollway projects. Link to details >

GLOBAL TRANSACTIONS

2/2/2022

IGRL Consultants (Montreal, Canada), an engineering firm dedicated to the food processing, pharmaceutical, and industrial markets, joined fast-growing facilities planning and design firm Salas O'Brien (Santa Ana, CA) (ENR #118). Link to details >

2/3/2022

ENR's #50 ranked global design firm AYESA (Sevilla, Spain) acquired ByrneLooby (Dublin, Ireland), an engineering firm that offers services to the marine and coastal, buildings, transportation, energy, environment, water, and waste management markets. Link to details >

2/1/2022

Multi-disciplinary engineering and design firm Norconsult (Sandvika, Norway) acquired JORD•MILJØ A/S (Ballerup, Denmark) and its sister company JORD•TEKNIK A/S (Ballerup, Denmark), specialists in environmental and soil surveys. Link to details >

2/2/2022

Mabbett & Associates (Glasgow, UK), an environmental services and consulting firm, acquired G H Johnston Building Consultants (Inverness, UK), a planning and design services firm. Link to details >

2/1/2022

Construction Testing Solutions (Leicester, UK), a construction testing and inspection firm, acquired Mason Evans (Glasgow, UK), a geo-environmental specialist.

Link to details >

1/27/2022

Civil engineering firm Teignmouth Maritime Services (Dawlish, UK) became a 50 per cent shareholder of Hesselberg Hydro UK (Dawlish, UK), hydraulic engineering and dam building services firm. Link to details >

UPCOMING EVENTS

MARCH 23-24, 2022

SOUTHEAST STATES M&A SYMPOSIUM

Miami, FL

Reserve your poolside cabana at our first Symposium of 2022 in the hottest city in the U.S!

JUNE 8-9, 2022

WESTERN STATES M&A, STRATEGY AND INNOVATION SYMPOSIUM

San Francisco, CA

We’re expanding our Symposium to incorporate deep dives on Strategy and Innovation! Same great networking, even more content for firm leaders!

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We are. Click here to see the industry-leading 29 transactions we have advised on in the Lone Star state.

If you are a Texas firm interested in M&A or a firm looking to grow in Texas through acquisition we can help. Contact Mick Morrissey at 508-380-1868 or [email protected].

2021 AE INDUSTRY M&A: YEAR-IN-REVIEW

Check out Jon Escobar’s commentary about some of the most important M&A trends and highlights from last year in our 2021 AE M&A Year-in-Review and corresponding infographic.

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